Hello, I am obviously aware that here on Scribes we all ply in the noble and honourable art of Fantasy, and leave Sci-Fi for the nerds who wouldn't know a longsword from an arming sword, or a sallet from a barbute until it was rammed sideways up their. . . you get the idea.
So basically, if this is TOO out of places, Admins, fire away *holds hands up in surrender*
If, however, this stays, I've got some questions for sciencey people.
I've been playing about with the idea of a near-future scif/fantasy for a few months now, written about 12k of it, and it's going good. Real good. I get to do some great world building, and the weaponry and advanced warfare systems I can come up with is enough to make me squee - marines with nanonics in their bodies augmenting respiration, blood capacity of glucose and oxygen, muscle uptake of ATP - basically boosting their bodies, with computers in their heads linked to flying drones with sensors and missile pods, starships with swarms of mini-missile shotgun things called fists, 20mm autocannon as defence, railguns and 240mm cannon.
It's awesome, geeky fun.
However, I'm not that big a sci-fi buff. Never seen star wars, only a few episodes and movies of star trek, and my reading consits of lots of James S.A Corey and Peter.F.Hamilton and a dash of Heinlein. Not even read Dune, though I do own a battered copy.
My physics is also not great. I know what gravity is, and that we orbit the sun, and not a lot else
So. . . can anyone tell me how fast something travelling at a one Gee acceleration is going, i.e km per second? Secondly, does going from one Gee to two mean the numbers double?
Is a starship shield of streams of heavily energized and activated ions and plasma held in place by a magnetic field in any way plausible, and whilst we're on it, would an assualt rifle that held spare mags in place by the use of magnets, for an automatic reload time of less than a second or two, without any of the problems of added weight, worsened accuracy, plausible or not?
And yes, there is FTL travel, like Hamilton's expanse series in the form of "jumps" through wormholes between starship systems, though travel in populated systems is kept to going at a couple of gees, so it does take time to get to places.
So basically, if this is TOO out of places, Admins, fire away *holds hands up in surrender*
If, however, this stays, I've got some questions for sciencey people.
I've been playing about with the idea of a near-future scif/fantasy for a few months now, written about 12k of it, and it's going good. Real good. I get to do some great world building, and the weaponry and advanced warfare systems I can come up with is enough to make me squee - marines with nanonics in their bodies augmenting respiration, blood capacity of glucose and oxygen, muscle uptake of ATP - basically boosting their bodies, with computers in their heads linked to flying drones with sensors and missile pods, starships with swarms of mini-missile shotgun things called fists, 20mm autocannon as defence, railguns and 240mm cannon.
It's awesome, geeky fun.
However, I'm not that big a sci-fi buff. Never seen star wars, only a few episodes and movies of star trek, and my reading consits of lots of James S.A Corey and Peter.F.Hamilton and a dash of Heinlein. Not even read Dune, though I do own a battered copy.
My physics is also not great. I know what gravity is, and that we orbit the sun, and not a lot else
So. . . can anyone tell me how fast something travelling at a one Gee acceleration is going, i.e km per second? Secondly, does going from one Gee to two mean the numbers double?
Is a starship shield of streams of heavily energized and activated ions and plasma held in place by a magnetic field in any way plausible, and whilst we're on it, would an assualt rifle that held spare mags in place by the use of magnets, for an automatic reload time of less than a second or two, without any of the problems of added weight, worsened accuracy, plausible or not?
And yes, there is FTL travel, like Hamilton's expanse series in the form of "jumps" through wormholes between starship systems, though travel in populated systems is kept to going at a couple of gees, so it does take time to get to places.